Fergie wrote:smurph wrote:Its a lot harder to prove then just a simple report This_Cop has harrased me, a simple SS of a cop following you isnt going to do it and they will simply justify their actions (the majority) of the time that its in character. In some instances, yes it is in character and you can tell it is a characters motive, Rashid_Jamal for example is known throughout gangs as being someone who just doesn't fuck around, you look at him the wrong way and he's going to come and search your grandma's house for anything illegal. That I can tolerate. What I do not approve of (and is hard to prove) is the fact that cops will turn around to follow you until you make a mistake, call a felony stop because your character seems suspicious when really its just four black guys in a car and the officer wants something to do because they are bored, and even though its rather obvious how do you prove this? You can /b and they will tell you to stay in character where there is nothing you can do and you are sent of to sacf with no say. Cops should be there to prevent crime, not going around pulling over every Tyrone and his buddy Jamal because they are "behaving suspiciously" and they have "probable cause" to search his vehicle and himself.
Welcome to real life. It's called racial profiling. It happens every day in real life. Seeing a group of 4+ black guys in a vehicle driving slow through a gang related area, yeah it's suspicious. Not as suspicious as seeing 4+ white guys doing the same thing. it's not OOC stalking or harassing to follow a car waiting to see if they do something wrong. Cops do it daily. Where I live, cops can often be found following cars to see if they turn down known drug streets, run stop lights, intersections, waiting for them to speed. Get over it.
I believe 4+ guys in a car is called car pooling in real life not suspicious activity...................
Pulling over a car because it has 4+ people of one race is not called racial profiling its called metagaming based on OOC knowledge of basic server actions. Pulling over a car of 4+ race people who are driving away from a crime scene is racial profiling. Justifying breaking the rules by comparing it to "real life" doesnt make sense If gangs are not allowed to provoke cops shouldn't either.